Morning Sankey 4/20/21

By Paul Sankey Published on April 20, 2021 at 8:42 AM

Staring at the blinking red and green Bloomberg ticks, alone in a home office, bombarded with Bitcoin headlines, Gamestop headlines, etc etc, it had become very difficult to make out the wood from the trees regarding the oil and energy call. I went on a road trip. I’m back. As suspected, the oils and energy have been tricky – notably solar has been ugly for the past month and year to date, albeit off a […]

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Sunday Sankey 4/11/21

By Paul Sankey Published on April 11, 2021 at 1:36 PM

This week I am heading to Oklahoma to meet Devon CEO Rick Muncrief and then Houston to bid farewell to outgoing ConocoPhillips COO Matt Fox. Opposite ends of the spectrum for me – never met Rick, have hung out many times over the years with Mr. Fox. The lowlight in professional terms with Matt was doing the first marketing trip for COP in NYC after the dividend cut in 2016. The highlight was Matt making […]

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Evening Ark Big Ideas

By Paul Sankey Published on January 27, 2021 at 6:35 PM

“Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what truth there may be in silence…”  Desiderata* ARK Invest has published its Big Ideas for 2021, and its important to take a look. We can also take a look back at the 2017 predictions. From an investment standpoint, and shareholder returns standpoint, the fund has been staggeringly successful. Obviously by extension so have the predictions, although current zero cost of capital market conditions are perfectly […]

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